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FREE MARKETING WEBINAR: introduction to engaging with diverse audiences
Do you struggle with knowing where to start when engaging with diverse audiences? Do you want to - and need to - know how to be more...
Sep 5, 20222 min read
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Power of Stories exhibition now open at Food Museum in Stowmarket, Suffolk as ‘Dining With Heroes’
The record-breaking, award-winning Power of Stories – an exhibition with Marvel Studios’ ground-breaking 2018 blockbuster, Black Panther.
Jul 24, 20223 min read
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Cocoa Girl publisher, Serlina Boyd, asks: why are BBC Proms audiences still so white? We respond.
On Monday 18 July, the amazing Serlina Boyd, founder and publisher of Cocoa Girl and Cocoa Boy magazines, asked why there was a huge lack...
Jul 18, 20221 min read
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GETTY IMAGES LAUNCHES INITIATIVE TO ELEVATE BLACK HISTORY AND EMPOWER STORYTELLERS
The Black History & Culture Collection content initiative provides access to historical and cultural imagery of the African/Black...
Jul 13, 20223 min read
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Aspire Black Suffolk to offer free D&I training for educators
Aspire Black Suffolk is working in partnership with the Ipswich Opportunity Area (IOA) and Suffolk County Council to deliver free...
May 21, 20221 min read
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Co-Curated 'Black Panther' Exhibition Wins National Museum Award
Photo : From left to right – Melanie Hollis (Curator at Ipswich Museums), Elma Glasgow (founder and co-director of Aspire Black Suffolk),...
May 12, 20224 min read
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Where to find anti-racism resources
2 min read Written by: Temitope Ajadi & Elma Glasgow ID: A Black man and a Black women sit at a desk in front of a PC screen. The UK has...
May 10, 20224 min read
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New Black Writing by Nemonee Stone.
In summer 2021, alongside the first run of Power of Stories in Ipswich, theatre company, High Tide, ran a series of creative writing...
Apr 19, 20224 min read
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Get involved in the Power of Stories tour
The Power of Stories is due to move to The Food Museum (previously The Museum of East Anglian Life) in Stowmarket in late May! Only a few...
Apr 15, 20222 min read
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Power of Stories at Ipswich Museum shortlisted for prestigious Museums + Heritage award
Published15th March 2022 by Ipswich Borough Council Shortlisted for the Temporary or Touring Exhibition of the Year category in the...
Apr 6, 20222 min read
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Aspire Black Suffolk: Celebrating local African-Caribbean culture and our stories
This article originally appeared in the Museum X Takeover of Museums Journal in September/October 2021. Aspire Black Suffolk: Celebrating...
Jan 30, 20222 min read
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Finding Superheroes: School art project inspired by Black Panther costumes
Finding Superheroes – A collaboration between Jubilant! Youth Arts Festival, Food Museum, Aspire Black Suffolk and Black and White...
Jan 1, 20229 min read
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